Civic Art Lab
Civic Art Lab is a community arts and environmental education storefront in Bed-Stuy, BK.
Civic Art Lab is a community arts and environmental education storefront in Bed-Stuy, BK.
The money raised will allow us to transport volunteers, tools, plants and compost to numerous gardens and tree pits throughout the Watershed.
Our school garden will impact healthy eating and living, connecting students to the environment personally -- by enhancing learning, encouraging advocacy, and promoting teamwork and problem-solving
Install a garden that will provide herbal plants and their derivatives to the community. Organic, natural medicinal herbs will boost communal wellbeing and health.
“Pop-up” Civic Design: How paper, props, imagination, and YOU can fix Brooklyn’s ugliest subway station at 4th Ave/9th St hub -- Think light, color, storefronts, art, amenities, street theater, fun!
Transformation of unused urban spaces for community, education and experimentation.
Good design cultivates inquiry-based learning in the classroom.
We will increase stormwater infiltration & decrease run-off by caring for new street trees and creating a rain garden.
Green infrastructure module kits for Brooklyn educators and students to build and install in their schoolyards.
We're expanding our rain barrel system by at least three more barrels, expanding our compost curing stations, and hoping to build a small greenhouse.
Transforming a vacant lot into a community garden that will provide a place for members of the community to safely and productively gather, participate in and learn about growing and eating healthy food.
Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping (GLAM) is a volunteer-driven initiative to create detailed aerial photos of the Superfund-designated Gowanus Canal, using cameras and balloons.
Providing space for engaging brains & bodies through hands-on education.
Help continue to bring meaningful youth food justice internship opportunities to Bushwick Campus!
61 Franklin Street Garden is resident-led community project converting a vacant lot in Northern Greenpoint into a vibrant and green open space for the use of the neighborhood.
A Small Green Patch is a Community Garden in Brooklyn, NY - The money gererated from this project will help the garden buy and set up a number of needed tools and events for the community.
Our culinary and medicinal herb garden will serve as an outdoor classroom to demonstrate the benefits of herbs as both food and medicine.
Big Green Theater is an annual youth and community based eco-playwriting program and performance festival that combines an environmental education initiative with the presentation of a Green Theater production.
We're expanding to grow more food and include more of our neighbors!
A project to expand PS 20 Green Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and gardening program that serves over 400 students at a Title 1 school in Brooklyn, New York!
Help NYC neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy.
Brownsville Student Farm is an oasis of plant and animal life in the middle of Brooklyn. We focus on youth education, providing a green community space and raising awareness about health and nutrition.
One Kin farm will be the transformation of an abandoned lot to an urban farm with 20 raised beds that will produce a variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers.
We are celebrating the neighborhood’s multiculturalism by depicting Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Sleepless City” poem in a 4-part mural series.
A day of cleaning and greening Flatbush Ave on May 12, 2012!
On Saturday, May 12, 2012, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, will share ideas and work together for the kind of food system change we need now. PLEASE DONATE TODAY!!
Help establish the first community garden at a high needs middle school in Brooklyn.
For The Newtown Creek Armada, a model boat pond will be created on one of America's most polluted waterways.
Our Gowanus Mud Ball project will gather the community to make mud balls and educate on beneficial microbes! Then a massive throw of 10,000 balls into a section of the Gowanus!
Feedback Farms is building out a 2nd location that will effectively double our square footage!
Help us create easily understood signs and brochures for our compost project and native plant garden for our diverse, multi-lingual neighbors!
A Recyclers' farm in the midst of the city is not only possible but attainable!!! . . Sure! we can!
Help us build a new people's garden in Bushwick. We'll be strengthening community and growing healthy, local economies at this positive social gathering point and greening action hub.
Employing and empowering mentally ill and formerly homeless individuals through urban gardening.
We have been cleaning out the lot and so far we have accomplished a lot. Our current project is to build a chicken coop and greenhouse.
Help build a home for 24 chickens in East New York.
A collaborative effort between residents and businesses of Bedford-Stuyvesant to transform a vacant lot for almost 20 years, into a thriving community garden.
Support New York City's first Youth Food Council! Flip the Table: Youth Food Council (YFC) is a youth-led coalition working to support, empower, and amplify the passionate young voices of the food justice movement.
My project intends to beautify the environment of the Ave. P business district by means of maintaining the twenty or so tree pits on the block.
Help us help Brooklyn know that the empty space around them is theirs! (Our apologies to the other boroughs!)
We want to convert a vacant lot into an urban farm that produces free veggies and eggs and provides free services to the community.
We want to build a 3 bin compost system to maximize our ability to collect compost, remediate the soil and improve the quality of what we grow in our garden.
The Brooklyn College Composting project will construct a three bin composting system and provide basic gardening tools for digging compost into plots and help care for seven street trees.
The compost bins will provide soil for the garden while engaging residents in discussions on waste reduction as part of the garden's community activities.
Help Sustainable Flatbush grow the Church Avenue Communal Garden, and create a beautiful green space for the Flatbush community to enjoy.
Prospect Park Lake Cleanup - September 19, 2009, 9am - 1pm
Kids and adults will plant flowers around ugly tree stumps, make curb-your-dog signs, and install waste-bag dispensers, to deal with waste and beautify.